Food & agriculture · c. 1996

Precision agriculture

GPS yield maps and auto-steer let farmers treat every square metre of a field differently.

Yield monitors appeared in the early 1990s and, with GPS fully operational from 1995, farmers began variable-rate seeding and fertilizing. Guidance systems now steer most large tractors in rich countries to within a few centimetres.

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